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ASF - Advanced Systems Format

 

Format introduction:

Advanced Systems Format (formerly Advanced Streaming Format, Active Streaming Format) is Microsoft's proprietary digital audio/digital video container format, especially meant for streaming media. ASF is part of the Media Foundation framework.

Technical details:

The format does not specify how the video or audio should be encoded; it just specifies the structure of the video/audio stream. This is similar to the function performed by the QuickTime, AVI, or Ogg container formats. One of the objectives of ASF was to support playback from digital media servers, HTTP servers, and local storage devices such as hard disk drives.

 

File extension	.asf
MIME	video/x-ms-asf, application/vnd.ms-asf
Developed by	Microsoft
Type of format	Digital container format
Associated programs	Windows Media Player
Sample file	sample.asf
Wikipedia	ASF on Wikipedia